F. Widmann

2.7k citations

17 papers · 331 indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 9

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 5%
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 10%
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Papers in ⓘ

Astronomy and Astrophysics 12
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 10
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 4
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 4
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 3
Nuclear and High Energy Physics 5
- Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 4

Co-authors: S. Gillessen (12 shared papers)Michi Bauböck (8 shared papers)M. Habibi (9 shared papers)R. Genzel (11 shared papers)P. T. de Zeeuw (8 shared papers)Thomas Ott (10 shared papers)F. Gao (8 shared papers)Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales (7 shared papers)
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (6 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (3 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (1 paper)Research Notes of the AAS (1 paper)
Partner nations: Germany United States Netherlands

In The Last Decade

F. Widmann

15 papers receiving 294 citations

Hit Papers

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Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc 2020 · 87 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2020 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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All Works

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17 of 17 papers shown

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1	Sgr A* near-infrared flares from reconnection events in a magnetically arrested disc Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jason Dexter, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Sean M. Ressler, Michi Bauböck, Yigit Dallilar, P. T. de Zeeuw, F. Eisenhauer, S. von Fellenberg, F. Gao, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, M. Habibi, Thomas Ott, J. Stadler, O. Straub, F. Widmann Hit paper breakdown →	2020	87
2	The Young Stars in the Galactic Center The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·S. D. von Fellenberg, S. Gillessen, J. Stadler, Michi Bauböck, R. Genzel, P. T. de Zeeuw, O. Pfuhl, Pau Amaro Seoane, A. Drescher, Frank Eisenhauer, M. Habibi, Thomas Ott, F. Widmann, A. Young	2022	50
3	A parameter survey of Sgr A* radiative models from GRMHD simulations with self-consistent electron heating Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jason Dexter, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Sean M. Ressler, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Michi Bauböck, P. T. de Zeeuw, F. Eisenhauer, S. von Fellenberg, F. Gao, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, M. Habibi, T. Ott, J. Stadler, O. Straub, F. Widmann	2020	48
4	Detection of a Drag Force in G2's Orbit: Measuring the Density of the Accretion Flow onto Sgr A* at 1000 Schwarzschild Radii The Astrophysical Journal ·S. Gillessen, P. M. Plewa, F. Widmann, S. D. von Fellenberg, M. Schartmann, M. Habibi, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Michi Bauböck, Jason Dexter, F. Gao, Idel Waisberg, F. Eisenhauer, O. Pfuhl, Thomas Ott, Andreas Burkert, P. T. de Zeeuw, R. Genzel	2019	47
5	Spectroscopic Detection of a Cusp of Late-type Stars around the Central Black Hole in the Milky Way The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·M. Habibi, S. Gillessen, O. Pfuhl, F. Eisenhauer, P. M. Plewa, S. von Fellenberg, F. Widmann, Thomas Ott, F. Gao, Idel Waisberg, Michi Bauböck, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Jason Dexter, P. T. de Zeeuw, R. Genzel	2019	26
6	What stellar orbit is needed to measure the spin of the Galactic centre black hole from astrometric data? Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Idel Waisberg, Jason Dexter, S. Gillessen, O. Pfuhl, Frank Eisenhauer, P. M. Plewa, Michi Bauböck, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, M. Habibi, Thomas Ott, Sebastiano von Fellenberg, F. Gao, F. Widmann, R. Genzel	2018	20
7	Relative depolarization of the black hole photon ring in GRMHD models of Sgr A* and M87* Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Jason Dexter, Sean M. Ressler, Alexander Tchekhovskoy, Michi Bauböck, Yigit Dallilar, P. T. de Zeeuw, A. Drescher, F. Eisenhauer, S. von Fellenberg, F. Gao, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, M. Habibi, Thomas Ott, J. Stadler, O. Straub, F. Widmann	2021	16
8	General relativistic effects and the near-infrared and X-ray variability of Sgr A* I Astronomy and Astrophysics ·S. D. von Fellenberg, Gunther Witzel, M. Bauböck, H. H. Chung, N. Aimar, M. Sadun Bordoni, A. Drescher, Frank Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, N. Marchili, T. Paumard, G. Perrin, Thomas Ott, D. C. Ribeiro, E. Ros, F. Vincent, F. Widmann, S. P. Willner, J. A. Zensus	2023	8
9	SiO: Not the perfect outflow tracer Astronomy and Astrophysics ·F. Widmann, H. Beuther, P. Schilke, Thomas Stanke	2016	8
10	Optical Distortion in the NACO Imager Research Notes of the AAS ·P. M. Plewa, S. Gillessen, Michi Bauböck, Jason Dexter, F. Eisenhauer, S. von Fellenberg, F. Gao, R. Genzel, M. Habibi, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Thomas Ott, O. Pfuhl, Idel Waisberg, F. Widmann	2018	5
11	Improving GRAVITY towards observations of faint targets F. Widmann, Frank Eisenhauer, S. Gillessen, G. Perrin, W. Brandner, C. Straubmeier, K. Perraut, A. Amorim, Markus Schoeller, F. Gao, R. Genzel, Idel Waisberg, S. Lacour, M. Lippa, Thomas Ott, P. M. Plewa, O. Pfuhl, Martina Karl	2018	4
12	Flaremodel: An open-source Python package for one-zone numerical modelling of synchrotron sources arXiv (Cornell University) ·Yigit Dallilar, S. D. von Fellenberg, M. Bauboeck, P. T. de Zeeuw, A. Drescher, F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, S. Gillessen, M. Habibi, T. Ott, G. Ponti, J. Stadler, O. Straub, F. Widmann, Gunther Witzel, A. Young	2021	3
13	P-REx: The Piston Reconstruction Experiment for infrared interferometry Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·F. Widmann, Jörg‐Uwe Pott, S. Velasco	2017	3
14	Accelerations of stars in the central 2–7 arcsec from Sgr A* Astronomy and Astrophysics ·A. Young, S. Gillessen, P. T. de Zeeuw, Yigit Dallilar, A. Drescher, F. Eisenhauer, R. Genzel, F. Mang, Thomas Ott, J. Stadler, O. Straub, S. von Fellenburg, F. Widmann	2022	2
15	P-REx: the piston drift reconstruction experiment Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE ·Jörg‐Uwe Pott, Qiang Fu, F. Widmann, D. Peter	2016	2
16	Testing P-REx on VLTI data UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona) ·Saavidra Perera, Jörg‐Uwe Pott, J. Woillez, Martin Kulas, W. Brandner, S. Lacour, F. Widmann, Steve Ertel, Amali Vaz	2020	1
17	Piston Reconstruction Experiment (P-REx) – II. Off-line performance evaluation with VLTI/GRAVITY Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Saavidra Perera, Jörg‐Uwe Pott, J. Woillez, Martin Kulas, W. Brandner, S. Lacour, F. Widmann	2022	1

About F. Widmann

F. Widmann is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Geophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 17 papers that have together received 331 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (10 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (7 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (4 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (4 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (3 papers), Optical measurement and interference techniques (3 papers) and High-pressure geophysics and materials (3 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (311 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (142 citations), Instrumentation (22 citations), Geophysics (18 citations) and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (9 citations). F. Widmann has collaborated with scholars based in Germany, United States and Netherlands. Frequent co-authors include S. Gillessen, Michi Bauböck, M. Habibi, R. Genzel, P. T. de Zeeuw, Thomas Ott, F. Gao, Alejandra Jiménez-Rosales, Jason Dexter and F. Eisenhauer. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Research Notes of the AAS.

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